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Tar balls reach Texas as stormy weather hampers cleanup
Richard Fausset and Bob Drogin,
Los
Angeles Times
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Reporting from Atlanta and Venice, La. — Oil from the
Deepwater Horizon spill was reported for the first time on the
beaches of Texas as high seas and stormy weather on Monday plagued
new cleanup plans in the Gulf of Mexico, including the test
deployment of a 1,100-foot "super skimmer" ship.
The weather prevented skimming operations for the eighth consecutive
day off the coasts of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Along
the Louisiana coast, a storm system made landfall Monday afternoon,
bringing thunderstorms and grounding skimming boats operating
close to shore.
More rough seas are likely later in the week, with a tropical
system churning east of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico that
may head north and strike eastern Texas and western Louisiana
late Wednesday, according to AccuWeather.com.
"This region is an open highway for the system to ride
more to the north, rather than to the west, like Alex did recently,"
AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski wrote Monday.
The spill, gushing as much as 60,000 barrels of oil a day,
is about 50 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. Sosnowski
said the system would probably become a tropical storm at the
least and had the possibility of creating squalls that could
disrupt the oil containment and cleanup efforts.
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